Dear practitioners and friends of Zen Center Athens, we would like to inform you that zazen will continue daily during the Christmas and New Year period. For more information and registrations please contact us at [email protected]
Dear practitioners and friends of Zen Center Athens. We wish you from the bottom of our hearts a Merry Christmas and a New Year with Health, Happiness and Creativity. By staying connected to the present, we stay connected to our potential. The practice of zazen is the way to develop and nurture the connection with the true, natural Self, which manifests and is experienced only in the present moment. We therefore urge you to continue your practice during the holidays, and keep the inner flame lit. Zazen will continue until Thursday 23/12 and will start again on Monday 3/1. On…
Dear practitioners and members of Zen Center Athens, We inform you that due to the effort to avoid the spread of the coronavirus, Rohatsu Sesshin (30/11 to 5/12/2021) needs to be cancelled, as its realization means close contact and coexistence of the participants during the five days. The next Sesshin will take place in Serifos, from 1 to 5 March 2022 (arrival on 28/2), where there is greater security as accommodation is in single rooms and the exercise area has more than adequate ventilation. More information can be found on our page, Kaisanji Retreats. Thank you very much.
Dear Sangha and Zen Center Athens friends. We have created a new page on our website where you can find videos from Koten Roshi’s recent online dharma talks and older videos from our teachers and guest teachers. You can visit the Audiovisual Material page to enjoy these talks. It is a great way to stay connected to the teachings, coming back from now and then and watching them with a fresh eye, or as the Teachers say, with a beginner’s mind. Gassho
Our next Zen Day will take place on Sunday, 21st November 2021. We will have 6 zazen periods with Kinhin (meditative walking) in between, and a discussion amongst practitioners. Please, arrive to Zen Center strictly by 10:10. After zazen starts, and once the door to Zendo is closed, you will not be able to enter. The lunch break takes place at Zen Center in silence. Anyone can bring their own food. Alternatively, we can arrange a meal that includes rice with vegetables. Please inform us promptly for both your participation and lunch by emailing us at: [email protected] The cost of…
KARUNA YOGA & ZEN RETREAT 27th OCTOBER – 1st NOVEMBER Dear friends and practitioners. We inform you that due to the intense weather conditions that are expected the following days, the dates of the Karuna Yoga & Zen Retreat have changed. The new dates are: Wednesday 27th October – Monday 1st November. For more information you can visit the Retreat’s page.
Dear friends. The introductory meeting for the month of October is postponed and will take place on Tuesday 12 October 19:30 – 21:00. For more information and registrations you can contact us at [email protected] Click More to read about the introduction to Zen.
We would like to inform you that on Sunday, July 18th our last Zen Day. For one more time we will have the special opportunity to connect with and listen to Koten Roshi’s Dharma talk on the 6th Book of Shobogenzo-zuimonki and as he has pointed out, for better attendance Book 6 must be read beforehand by the participants. We will have 6 zazen periods with Kinhin (meditative walking) in between, and a discussion amongst practitioners at 13.30 before the lunch break. Please note that the platform room will be open only during the discussion. This time our connection with Roshi, will be…
We would like to inform you that the next Zen Day, at Zen Center Athens will take place on Sunday 20 June from 10:00 to 18:00. We will have 6 zazen periods with Kinhin, in between, and a lunch break. We will have the special opportunity to connect and listen to Koten Roshi talk on chapter 6 of Shobogenzo-zuimonki. The Master has pointed out to us that for better monitoring of the speech, the chapter should have been read by the participants. For those who will follow the Zen Day from home, note that, our connection to the zoom platform…
We are pleased to inform you that from Monday 31st of May the Center will reopen and operate on its regular program of classes and zazen periods. For our program please press here. All students and visitors of the Center must, for the safety of all, present one of the 3 certificates provided by the required measures against the spread of Covid-19 and prove that the holder has been vaccinated against the disease, that he has tested for COVID-19 with a negative result or that he has recovered from the disease. In addition, everyone will enter the area with a mask that…
